It’s time to try something new here. After a rather long time successfully posting to my blog on a daily basis (around two and a half years), I fell out of the habit hard in early July. The stuff I share here at ethandezotelle.com is, if nothing else, a form of life support for the …
Tag: writing
50 Years
Yesterday at school, we were talking with our students about the importance of things not being easy all the time. The teacher I work with pointed out that if second grade was always easy, with no mistakes made and no struggles to be had, there wouldn’t be a point to being in second grade. I …
Get the Funk Up
I haven’t been getting to my daily posts much lately, despite my best efforts. I started a new job a couple weeks ago, and I’ve mostly been focusing my writing time on personal journaling. But as I write this, there are just a few hours left in August, and that means autumn starts tomorrow, at …
Looking Back On an Olympic Time
Franklin County is a rural area on the U.S./Canadian border in northwest Vermont. Some 49,000 people populate the 14 towns and one city across 692 square miles. This county is one of the few in Vermont that can still pass the sniff test (quite literally when it’s time to spread cow manure on the fields) …
17
In a few hours, it’ll be the seventeenth anniversary of the last time someone saw Brianna Maitland. At least as far as we know. Brianna Maitland Brianna hasn’t been seen since leaving The Black Lantern Inn – her place of employment – in Montgomery, VT, after her shift ended on March 19, 2004. The next …